Babies

Please everyone send happy positive thoughts our direction. This whole trying to get pregnant thing really sucks. It's frustrating that the Klomid hasn't worked. It sucks trying not to tell anyone that we're trying, but that's all you can think about all day long, so it always comes up. Then I feel that I let them down that it's like, "Nope not this month." Grrrr. And yes I know that they don't feel that way, but I do. I have decided that I can't do the Klomid again next month. The toll it's taking on my body is way too much for me to handle. We are really hoping everything works out for us. So please remember us in your prayers. Thanks. :)

Good Day

You know those days where it seems like time has sped up and you don't get anything done. Well today is not that day. I didn't even get going til 11am, but today I have cleaned the house, washed my bedding, went to the store, paid the bills, and I am making a roast with potatoes and carrots for dinner. The Rhodes rolls are still rising. And I still feel great. Then tonight I am going to cut Joe's hair, so his mom doesn't make him get it cut by the students at Evans. The kids look like they've been cut with a weed wacker. Then ma and I are going to go tanning for her psoriasis. It's barely 4pm and it feels like it should be 10pm. Today is going to be a good day. :)

Stubby

Hormones suck.

Ok, so since I have been on face book a lot of my friends ask how we're doing and there's that question I hate to answer. "Do we have any kids?" Well right now it is a no and here is why. For the past few years Clint and I really haven't been trying, but we aren't doing anything to stop it either. So after my cycles starting coming farther and farther apart I decided to see a doctor about it. As it turns out I am not ovulating. So I have been placed on Progesterone for 10 days to make my cycle come then I will be put on Klomid to make me ovulate. The Progesterone makes me very tired and I am hungry all the time. I've gained 2 pounds in the last 9 days. But the doctors are worried that it might now work, because I have a lesion in my pituitary gland. That is the master gland that controls almost all the hormones in the body. I've known about the lesion since 2002 I was suppose to have a follow up MRI in 6 months, but we lost our insurance. I just got the follow up MRI last month to see if it has gotten any bigger and it has, but not by much. The scary thing is my neurologist on my last visit changed the description from lesion to tumor. But the problem now is, did it just start growing? Because my hormones have only started to act funny the last few months. So we'll just have to see how it goes. We have to get my body back on track before kids are even an option.

Update on Sam

They took everything 6 inches below her knee off. The surgery went very well. The doc's took part of the tibia, the shin bone, and turned it horizontal so it attaches to both bones to give her better support. She got to come home last Tuesday. She is living at Clint's mom's house, so they set Sam up in her front room. She is going back up to the hospital today to for them to re-check her leg and put on a smaller cast. Right now she has a cast that goes all the way up to her hip. She hates it, because it is so heavy. Sam is an amazing little girl. She has such a great out look. She just keeps saying, "It's just a foot. At least I'm still here." Her only worry is about dating. She is worried that no one will want to date her without her foot. We have told her that anyone who meets her will love her, with or without a foot. She is really excited, because a orthodontist heard about her and is going to give her braces for her teeth for free.

Sam's Foot

I have had a very hard time lately as many of you know Clint's niece Sam was run over by a semi on Monday and it took off her foot. The doctors reattached it and did all that they could do but it looks like she is going to loose everything from the ankle down. I just got off the phone with Cory(Clint's sister) and she is just devastated. She knows Sam is going to loose the foot but Sam doesn't yet. I mean how do you tell someone that. She is waiting until morning to tell her, so that Sam will have one more good night of thinking nothing is going to change. I feel so helpless, there isn't much I can do except send prayers and happy thoughts that way. Sam was horrified when they cut all of her clothes off. She just kept crying, "They're cutting off my good clothes." So Clint and I have decided to try and replace outfit she lost. I am saddened by the people who voiced their opinions on KSL's web page. One person even had the gall to say that Sam was trying to prove something. Others said that it was Sam's fault and that she should of been paying attention. The truck came up from behind her. I didn't know you had to walk down the street looking over your shoulder the whole time. But all I got to say is that if it is not safe to walk on side walks where can we walk? I want to thank everyone who has sent their love and support, it is much appreciated.

Stubby

Last night Clint and I were getting ready for bed when we heard Stubby meowing hysterically in the kitchen(Stubby hardly ever talks). We ran in there expecting to find him injured. He was just sitting there. A praimantis had somehow came in with him through the kitty door and Stubby was crying because he was scared. He spent the rest of the night on our bed.